It is a good thing to praise the Lord. When we go through warfare or depression, singing praise is a good thing to do. Praising the Lord, can pull us through some of the toughest times in our life. When you sing praise and thank the Lord, it just does something. It brings a feeling of peace and joy. There will be times, where I must force myself to sing praise. I won't feel like it, but like I said before my wife, pushes it. I'm always glad she does, after I do it, because it does make me feel some what better. I have my times, where I just want to give up and those are times when singing praise, is needed the most. However, we need to sing praise, even when it's not needed for our emotional well being. Praise strengthens us and helps our faith. How do followers get through their toughest times? Through praise, prayer and thanksgiving. I've lost a lot of family and etc. Some people would say, "What do I have to be thankful for?" If they were where I'm at. I know what I have to be thankful for. I can be thankful for Jesus, the Holy Spirit, God, my wife, any family I have left, a roof over my head, clothes, food and etc. We can even be thankful to the Lord, if we run into someone nice. We might not have much, but we need to thank and praise God, for what we do have. I believe that if we show our appreciation to God, for the little things that we have, we will end up with much more!

God, is faithful no matter what happens, He will always be there for us. Since God, is faithful and He loves us, we have every right to sing praises and thank Him. Just listening to praise music helps too. A lot of people aren't into praise music, they think it's all, "Church Music." I listen to a lot of praise music, that the church would not play in their church. There are all different kinds of worship music: Rock, country, pop, rap and whatever else you can think of. We need to surround ourselves with the positive surroundings of praise. When I first started walking with God, I still listened to worldly music and thought that there was no cool, worship music. When I listened to worldly music, it seemed as if my walk with Jesus, was more like a crawl. I wasn't growing and I wasn't getting anywhere with Jesus. When I started listening to worship music, I couldn't get enough of it. I started growing tremendously and I whole heartedly believe that it will help your walk, when you give up worldly music. I challenge you to stop listening to worldly music, for one month and you'll see a difference. Once you see that difference, you'll never go back!

Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this message. Please forgive us of all our sins and we forgive those who've wronged, us. Bring us closer to you and bless praise music to our ears and heart. Put a song of praise in our mouths. In Jesus, name. A-men!